The application/pdf Media Type
RFC 8118
Document | Type |
RFC - Informational
(March 2017; No errata)
Obsoletes RFC 3778
Was draft-hardy-pdf-mime (individual)
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Authors | Matthew Hardy , Larry Masinter , Dejan Markovic , Duff Johnson , Martin Bailey | ||
Last updated | 2017-03-17 | ||
Stream | IETF | ||
Formats | plain text html pdf htmlized bibtex | ||
Reviews | |||
Stream | WG state | (None) | |
Document shepherd | No shepherd assigned | ||
IESG | IESG state | RFC 8118 (Informational) | |
Consensus Boilerplate | Yes | ||
Telechat date | |||
Responsible AD | Alexey Melnikov | ||
Send notices to | (None) | ||
IANA | IANA review state | Version Changed - Review Needed | |
IANA action state | RFC-Ed-Ack |
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) M. Hardy Request for Comments: 8118 L. Masinter Obsoletes: 3778 D. Markovic Category: Informational Adobe Systems Incorporated ISSN: 2070-1721 D. Johnson PDF Association M. Bailey Global Graphics March 2017 The application/pdf Media Type Abstract The Portable Document Format (PDF) is an ISO standard (ISO 32000-1:2008) defining a final-form document representation language in use for document exchange, including on the Internet, since 1993. This document provides an overview of the PDF format and updates the media type registration of "application/pdf". It obsoletes RFC 3778. Status of This Memo This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is published for informational purposes. This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). It represents the consensus of the IETF community. It has received public review and has been approved for publication by the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). Not all documents approved by the IESG are a candidate for any level of Internet Standard; see Section 2 of RFC 7841. Information about the current status of this document, any errata, and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8118. Hardy, et al. Informational [Page 1] RFC 8118 application/pdf March 2017 Copyright Notice Copyright (c) 2017 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the document authors. All rights reserved. This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents (http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info) in effect on the date of publication of this document. Please review these documents carefully, as they describe your rights and restrictions with respect to this document. Code Components extracted from this document must include Simplified BSD License text as described in Section 4.e of the Trust Legal Provisions and are provided without warranty as described in the Simplified BSD License. Table of Contents 1. Introduction ....................................................2 2. History .........................................................3 3. Fragment Identifiers ............................................3 4. Subset Standards ................................................5 5. PDF Versions ....................................................6 6. PDF Implementations .............................................7 7. Security Considerations .........................................7 8. IANA Considerations .............................................8 9. References ......................................................9 9.1. Normative References .......................................9 9.2. Informative References .....................................9 Appendix A. Changes since RFC 3778 ................................11 Authors' Addresses ................................................12 1. Introduction This document is intended to provide updated information on the registration of the MIME Media Type "application/pdf" for documents in the PDF (Portable Document Format) syntax. It obsoletes [RFC3778]. PDF was originally envisioned as a way to reliably communicate and view printed information electronically across a wide variety of machine configurations, operating systems, and communication networks. PDF is used to represent "final form" formatted documents. PDF pages may include text, images, graphics, and multimedia content such as video and audio. PDF is also capable of containing auxiliary structures, including annotations, bookmarks, file attachments, hyperlinks, logical structures, and metadata. These features are Hardy, et al. Informational [Page 2] RFC 8118 application/pdf March 2017 useful for navigation and building collections of related documents, as well as for reviewing and commenting on documents. A rich JavaScript model has been defined for interacting with PDF documents. The imaging model for PDF was originally based on the PostScript [PS] page description language, used to render complex text, images, and graphics in a device-independent and resolution-independent manner. PDF supports encryption and digital signatures. The encryptionShow full document text